“When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects,” Pelley, 68, wrote in a statement obtained by PEOPLE. “Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration. The waste is heartbreaking.”
On May 28, 60 Minutes parted ways with journalists Cecilia Vega and Sharyn Alfonsi. CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and CBS News president Tom Cibrowski also fired executive producer Tanya Smith, replacing her with tech journalist Nick Bilton.
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